Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today there are between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 U.S. children who are either partially or totally deaf. How can their parents teach and help them? In a new book, Your Deaf Child (Charles C. Thomas; $2.50), Helmer Myklebust, Northwestern University audiology professor, gives some primer-clear answers...
Leave a Light. First of all, says Myklebust, parents must find out just what sort of deafness their child has. A few "deaf" children actually have perfect hearing, but because of psychological tensions, choose neither to speak nor to hear. Some children-the aphasiacs-can hear, but because of injury to the brain, can make no sense from the sounds about them and gradually come to ignore sound entirely. Other children can hear a few sounds, but not those in the range of ordinary speech. Still others hear nothing...
...Spanish ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf, old, awkward, feeble [but] so happy and eager to see the world...
Another step toward aiding the partially deaf to hear perfectly has been taken in the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory of the University in the basement of Memorial Hall...
...most remarkable 'fan' letter," confesses British Novelist Angela Thirkell, "was from an old lady of 79 who said she was tired of reading my books, so would I stop writing them?" Deaf to this honest plea, Novelist Thirkell has gone forging on, hammering out (since 1933) at least one, sometimes two, novels a year. "And after all," as a lady-novelist character in Novelist Thirkell's latest one observes, "no one can say my books . . . do any harm and anyway they are all exactly alike...